SQL Server Jobs in London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 46 60
Rank change year-on-year +3 +14 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 1,226 2,214 3,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.24% 6.04% 6.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.69% 24.04% 19.57%
Number of salaries quoted 987 1,776 2,603
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,800
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,823 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% +5.88% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +8.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,966 9,211 20,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.24% 25.12% 31.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,768 6,275 9,196
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,705 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,290 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £116,250 £107,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in London.

Salary trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the London region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -6 216 £65,000 -7.14% 49
West London -36 31 £55,000 +10.00% 14
South London -21 23 £60,000 - 7
East London +10 19 £57,500 +4.55% 12
North London 0 8 £55,000 -26.67% 1
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 108 (8.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 78 (6.36%) SharePoint
3 71 (5.79%) IIS
4 50 (4.08%) CMS
5 20 (1.63%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.47%) Apache
7 15 (1.22%) EPiServer
7 15 (1.22%) WordPress
8 13 (1.06%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
9 11 (0.90%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.57%) Confluence
10 7 (0.57%) JBoss
10 7 (0.57%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.57%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.57%) WildFly
11 6 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.49%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.49%) SAS
12 5 (0.41%) Kentico
Applications
1 45 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.98%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.24%) SPSS
7 1 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (6.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (3.83%) Endur
3 20 (1.63%) NEC Housing
4 19 (1.55%) SDL Web 8
5 16 (1.31%) Fidessa
6 15 (1.22%) Elite 3E
7 13 (1.06%) PlanetPress Connect
8 10 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.73%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 9 (0.73%) Sage X3
9 9 (0.73%) SAP Business One
10 7 (0.57%) BusinessWorks
10 7 (0.57%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
11 4 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
12 3 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
12 3 (0.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 3 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
12 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
12 3 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 621 (50.65%) Azure
2 197 (16.07%) AWS
3 195 (15.91%) Power Platform
4 165 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (8.48%) Microsoft 365
6 72 (5.87%) SaaS
7 64 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 45 (3.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 45 (3.67%) PaaS
9 43 (3.51%) GitHub
10 39 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
10 39 (3.18%) Serverless
11 35 (2.85%) Snowflake
12 33 (2.69%) GCP
12 33 (2.69%) IaaS
13 32 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
14 31 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
14 31 (2.53%) PowerApps
15 28 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
16 27 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.71%) Firewall
2 67 (5.46%) DNS
3 43 (3.51%) Internet
4 34 (2.77%) DHCP
5 30 (2.45%) SAN
6 29 (2.37%) VPN
7 26 (2.12%) TCP/IP
8 16 (1.31%) FIX Connectivity
9 14 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (1.06%) Wireless
11 12 (0.98%) iSCSI
12 11 (0.90%) VLAN
13 10 (0.82%) Fibre Channel
13 10 (0.82%) HTTP
13 10 (0.82%) Network Security
13 10 (0.82%) WAN
14 9 (0.73%) LAN
15 8 (0.65%) NAS
15 8 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
16 6 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (16.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 173 (14.11%) Power BI
3 139 (11.34%) Relational Database
4 128 (10.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 126 (10.28%) Data Warehouse
6 82 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
7 73 (5.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 69 (5.63%) MongoDB
8 69 (5.63%) RDBMS
9 67 (5.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 66 (5.38%) MySQL
11 41 (3.34%) Data Lake
11 41 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
12 38 (3.10%) Tableau
13 29 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
14 28 (2.28%) DB2
15 24 (1.96%) NoSQL
16 20 (1.63%) Delta Lake
17 19 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
18 18 (1.47%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 117 (9.54%) Git
2 83 (6.77%) Visual Studio
3 81 (6.61%) JIRA
4 53 (4.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 31 (2.53%) TeamCity
6 22 (1.79%) Moq
6 22 (1.79%) NUnit
7 21 (1.71%) Jenkins
8 20 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
9 16 (1.31%) SpecFlow
10 12 (0.98%) git-flow
10 12 (0.98%) GitLab
10 12 (0.98%) Sourcetree
11 11 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (0.82%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.82%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.57%) Mercurial
13 7 (0.57%) Selenium
14 6 (0.49%) Subversion
15 5 (0.41%) FitNesse
General
1 319 (26.02%) Finance
2 288 (23.49%) Social Skills
3 139 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (7.10%) Marketing
5 77 (6.28%) Banking
6 71 (5.79%) Games
7 62 (5.06%) Legal
8 46 (3.75%) Law
9 43 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 37 (3.02%) Back Office
10 37 (3.02%) Local Government
11 32 (2.61%) Retail
12 23 (1.88%) Front Office
12 23 (1.88%) Public Sector
13 22 (1.79%) Financial Institution
14 18 (1.47%) Investment Banking
15 15 (1.22%) Billing
16 12 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 481 (39.23%) Developer
2 278 (22.68%) Senior
3 204 (16.64%) .NET Developer
4 163 (13.30%) Analyst
5 142 (11.58%) C# Developer
6 118 (9.62%) Lead
7 109 (8.89%) Senior Developer
8 80 (6.53%) Applications Support
9 76 (6.20%) C# .NET Developer
10 75 (6.12%) Architect
11 72 (5.87%) Support Analyst
12 71 (5.79%) Full Stack Developer
13 66 (5.38%) Data Engineer
14 63 (5.14%) Consultant
15 50 (4.08%) Software Developer
16 47 (3.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 46 (3.75%) Applications Support Analyst
17 46 (3.75%) DBA
18 44 (3.59%) Senior C# Developer
19 37 (3.02%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (38.01%) .NET
2 231 (18.84%) ASP.NET
3 216 (17.62%) HTML
4 182 (14.85%) AngularJS
5 170 (13.87%) .NET Framework
6 167 (13.62%) .NET Core
7 163 (13.30%) CSS
8 139 (11.34%) ASP.NET MVC
9 128 (10.44%) Web Services
10 117 (9.54%) Entity Framework
11 111 (9.05%) ASP.NET Web API
12 103 (8.40%) REST
13 102 (8.32%) XML
14 100 (8.16%) RESTful
15 99 (8.08%) React
16 96 (7.83%) HTML5
17 74 (6.04%) SOAP
18 68 (5.55%) jQuery
18 68 (5.55%) JSON
19 54 (4.40%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 68 (5.55%) Greenfield Project
2 56 (4.57%) Management Information System
2 56 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
3 46 (3.75%) Swaptions
4 33 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (2.45%) Replication
6 28 (2.28%) Hedge funds
7 27 (2.20%) Cloud Native
7 27 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.12%) Clustering
8 26 (2.12%) Product Ownership
9 24 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.88%) Life Science
11 22 (1.79%) Data Centre
12 20 (1.63%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.55%) Housing Association
13 19 (1.55%) Virtual Team
14 18 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (1.47%) Legacy Code
15 16 (1.31%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 255 (20.80%) Windows
2 115 (9.38%) Linux
3 93 (7.59%) Windows Server
4 38 (3.10%) Unix
5 29 (2.37%) Windows 10
6 26 (2.12%) Ubuntu
7 24 (1.96%) CentOS
8 23 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (1.39%) Solaris
11 15 (1.22%) zOS
12 10 (0.82%) Mac OS
13 8 (0.65%) VMS
13 8 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.57%) Android
15 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
16 5 (0.41%) Apple iOS
16 5 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (31.48%) Agile
2 277 (22.59%) DevOps
3 215 (17.54%) ETL
4 204 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
5 200 (16.31%) Business Intelligence
6 190 (15.50%) MVC
7 181 (14.76%) Full Stack Development
8 164 (13.38%) Scrum
9 162 (13.21%) Microservices
10 149 (12.15%) Computer Science
11 142 (11.58%) Data Modelling
11 142 (11.58%) TDD
12 131 (10.69%) Analytics
13 126 (10.28%) ITIL
14 118 (9.62%) Software Engineering
15 108 (8.81%) CI/CD
16 97 (7.91%) Mentoring
17 95 (7.75%) CRM
18 88 (7.18%) Roadmaps
19 86 (7.01%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 628 (51.22%) SQL
2 460 (37.52%) C#
3 335 (27.32%) JavaScript
4 265 (21.62%) T-SQL
5 198 (16.15%) Python
6 116 (9.46%) PowerShell
7 113 (9.22%) Java
8 77 (6.28%) TypeScript
9 51 (4.16%) Bash
9 51 (4.16%) PL/SQL
10 49 (4.00%) VB
11 37 (3.02%) XPath
12 32 (2.61%) Perl
13 26 (2.12%) R
14 23 (1.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 22 (1.79%) Bicep
16 21 (1.71%) Ruby
17 15 (1.22%) Scala
18 10 (0.82%) VB.NET
19 9 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 270 (22.02%) Degree
2 70 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (2.45%) Security Cleared
4 25 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 22 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 19 (1.55%) SC Cleared
8 11 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
10 6 (0.49%) MCP
10 6 (0.49%) MCSE
11 5 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.33%) MCSA
13 3 (0.24%) CISM
13 3 (0.24%) CISSP
13 3 (0.24%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.16%) A+ Certification
14 2 (0.16%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.16%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.16%) Data Quality
2 37 (3.02%) SLA
3 36 (2.94%) QA
4 15 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.98%) GDPR
6 11 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.33%) ISO 9000
9 4 (0.33%) NIST
9 4 (0.33%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.24%) MiFID
11 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.082%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.082%) WCAG
System Software
1 123 (10.03%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.94%) Docker
3 34 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.47%) vSphere
5 14 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.16%) XenApp
10 1 (0.082%) ACF2
10 1 (0.082%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.082%) IAG
10 1 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.082%) RACF
10 1 (0.082%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 70 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 63 (5.14%) Terraform
3 26 (2.12%) SCCM
4 22 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.63%) Ansible
5 20 (1.63%) Grafana
6 16 (1.31%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
8 9 (0.73%) Foglight
9 8 (0.65%) Nagios
9 8 (0.65%) Puppet
10 7 (0.57%) Control-M
11 6 (0.49%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.49%) WSUS
12 5 (0.41%) Istio
13 4 (0.33%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.24%) Nessus
Vendors
1 557 (45.43%) Microsoft
2 202 (16.48%) Oracle
3 68 (5.55%) Databricks
4 63 (5.14%) VMware
5 59 (4.81%) Sybase
6 53 (4.32%) TIBCO
7 46 (3.75%) OpenLink
8 32 (2.61%) ServiceNow
9 30 (2.45%) HP
10 29 (2.37%) Red Hat
11 25 (2.04%) Citrix
12 23 (1.88%) Bloomberg
13 22 (1.79%) SAP
14 21 (1.71%) Veeam
15 20 (1.63%) Dynatrace
15 20 (1.63%) NEC
15 20 (1.63%) Reuters
16 18 (1.47%) Adobe
16 18 (1.47%) Google
17 17 (1.39%) Cisco